Background:The mother of children aged 10 and 7 years was in her third long term relationship. The first relationship commenced when she was aged 18 years and produced 3 children. The second relationship commenced when the mother was aged 25 years and lasted for 12 years, producing 3 children.
The mother alleged that the father had sexually abused one child and the child protection department removed two children from the mother’s care and stopped contact with the father for a period, deeming that the father presented an unacceptable risk of harm to the children. This assessment was later reviewed and reversed when it was found that the mother had made false allegations of sexual abuse by the father. The children were then placed in the care of the father. The mother commenced supervised co

Background:The mother is 42 and the father is 43 years old. The parties commenced a relationship in 1999 when they were in their late twenties.
The case involves competing claims of domestic violence and property dispute.
In relation to parenting matters there are three significant factual disputes.
First, the father contends that he was the victim of serious systematic violence perpetrated by the mother for most the relationship. The mother contends that it was the father who was violent towards her and that if she also engaged in violence, it was in response to the father’s antagonism.
Second, the mother contends that the father and his (second) wife Mrs H abused the children after separation, which is denied by the father.
Finally, it is central to the father and the ICL’s ca

Background:The parents separated in January 2009 when the children were three and eight weeks old, respectively. The mother moved away from the matrimonial home with the children, who lived with her.
This case has a signification history of litigation since then, culminating into these proceedings.
In this case, the mother has made serious allegations of child sexual abuse by the father against a child of the marriage. As a result she has requested that the children live with her and that any time that the children spend with the father be supervised.
After investigation, the allegations were deemed to be 'false'. The family report went so far as to recommend that the children be 'immediately' removed from the mother's care because of her unrepentant beliefs that the father was a paedophile

Background:The parents of two girls, aged 10 and 6, engaged in failed financial negotiations after separation.
Soon after these negotiations, the mother raised allegations of child sexual abuse by the father against their two female children.
The children were medically examined but were found to have no physical indications of sexual abuse. The children were also found to have made inconsistent statements to police, family members and carers. The children also made conflicting statements as to their desire to see their father.

Background:The mother is 42 years old and the father is 43 years old. The parties commenced a relationship in 1999 when they were in their late twenties.
The case involves competing claims of domestic violence and alleged child abuse.
To support his case, the father has submitted transcripts of recorded conversations between himself and the mother. These recordings were made covertly, without the knowledge of the mother.

Background:Mr & Ms Wylie met and married in 2000, bought and renovated and sold houses in the property boom, travelled and worked through Europe. Their twin girls were born through IVF in 2007, when Mr Wylie was establishing his own small business.
They experienced increasing conflicts within their relationship, until Mr Wylie eventually suggested that they should separate.
One day soon after, Mr Wylie received a text message from Ms Wylie: “You need to talk to the Department of Child Safety, they’ve got some concerns.”
However an assessment determined that there was no evidence of sexual abuse, but there was evidence of emotional abuse, stemming from fabricated allegations by the mother.
Ms Wylie also advised that she too was sexually abused as a child.

Background:The mother has asserted that the child has been the subject of sexually improper behaviour by the father.
This has included claims that the father had inserted items such as a fish hook, pizza and an electric cord into his anus, while in the presence of the child.
After investigating the allegations, the police, the Department of Communities, Child Safety and Disability Services (“the Department”), as well as the Independent Children’s Lawyer have each determined that the child had not been the subject of sexual misconduct by the father.

Background:This is a case of an Anglo-Australian father and a Chinese-born mother.
There was a high level of parental conflict during and after the breakdown of the relationship.
After separation, the mother and father lived in separate states. They had two children aged 11 and 9. The father had then re-partnered.
In dispute over 'contact with the children' after separation, the mother made allegations of child sexual abuse against the father. She also made allegations of physical violence by the father against her and the children.
These allegations were found to be baseless, contrived and pre-meditated by the Court.
The mother also engaged in behaviour intended to incite hatred in the children against the father. This alienation proceeded to a degree where the children did not want t